Modern British & Irish Art Evening Auction

Modern British & Irish Art Evening Auction

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Property from a Private European Collection

Henry Moore, R.A.

Family Group

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private European Collection

Henry Moore

1898 - 1986

Family Group


bronze

height (including integral bronze base): 14.5cm.; 5in.

Conceived in 1945 and cast circa 1945 at Fiorini Ltd, the present work is from the edition of 6.

Waddington Galleries, London

Kasahara Gallery, Osaka

Private Collection  

Landau Fine Art, Montreal, where acquired by the present owner, March 2017

David Sylvester, (ed.), Henry Moore. Sculpture and Drawings 1921-1948, vol. 1, London, 1957, no. 235, pp. 14, 278, illustrated p. 150 (terracotta cast)

Will Grohmann, The Art of Henry Moore, London, 1960, no. 121, illustrated p.8 (terracotta cast)

Ionel Jianou, Henry Moore, Paris, 1968, no. 222, illustrated p. 75 (terracotta cast, as Groupe de Famille)

John Hedgecoe (ed.), Henry Moore, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1968, illustrated p. 162 (terracotta cast)

Robert Melville, Henry Moore: Sculpture and Drawings, 1921-1969, Thames and Hudson, London, 1970, no. 343, illustrated (another cast)

Josep Iglesias del Marguet, Henry Moore: Y El Inquietante Infinito, Ediciones Poligrafa Barcelona, 1979, illustrated p. 133 (another cast)

David Mitchinson (ed.), Henry Moore: Sculpture, Macmillan, London, 1981, no. 178, illustrated p. 95 (another cast)

David Sylvester (ed.), Henry Moore: Complete Sculpture, Vol. 1, 1921-1948, Lund Humphries, London, 1988, no. 265, illustrated p. 150 (another cast)

Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Henry Moore at the National Museum of Modern Art, 1969, no. 28 (another cast)

Florence, Forte Belvedere, British Council, Henry Moore Exhibition, 20 May - 30 September 1972, no. 62 (terracotta cast)

London, Alex Reid & Lefevre, Small Bronzes and Drawings by Henry Moore, 30 November - 23 December 1972, no. 11, illustrated p. 29 (another cast, later edition)

London, Thomas Gibson, Twenty Sculptures from the collection of Thomas Gibson Fine Art, 1974, illustrated (another cast)

London, Thomas Gibson, 80/80, 30 July 1978, illustrated in the exh. cat. p. 17 (another cast)